What app to use for deleting multiple duplicates of contact entries?
Something that will let me see the contact number & name...
Sync all your contacts to Google. Then use Google Contacts from your GMail. It has an option to delete the duplicates in the contact list.
I found this method to be the best. There are other apps in the market but they take way too much time. HTC Sense People app has this feature built in.
if4ct0r said:
Sync all your contacts to Google. Then use Google Contacts from your GMail. It has an option to delete the duplicates in the contact list.
I found this method to be the best. There are other apps in the market but they take way too much time. HTC Sense People app has this feature built in.
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Very informative, thank you. I will definitely try this.
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I may flash a custom Gingerbread ROM a few months down the road but I'm staying stock until the hardware checks out. The only thing I don't like about Sense is it's gone and added a ton of Facebook friends with phone numbers to my contact list and I really don't want them. Is there a way to remove them? I can't seem to find a simple solution.
Thanks in advance.
Frostshock said:
I may flash a custom Gingerbread ROM a few months down the road but I'm staying stock until the hardware checks out. The only thing I don't like about Sense is it's gone and added a ton of Facebook friends with phone numbers to my contact list and I really don't want them. Is there a way to remove them? I can't seem to find a simple solution.
Thanks in advance.
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did you check the Facebook sync contacts setting?
Whatdah said:
did you check the Facebook sync contacts setting?
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I just double checked, contacts aren't being synced for Android Facebook or Sense Facebook. When I go into the contacts app (I think it's called People) I have set my 70 contacts from Facebook for Sense to not be viewed, but they still appear in the list of people to call or send messages to. I don't care if they're there, but at the least I don't want to see them. I have them hidden in contacts but they appear in Handcent and Phone anyway.
Did you ever in the past link up FB contacts to an android phone? In that case I believe it also syncs up with Google's contacts in the cloud...but I may be mistaken
Yeah this got posted a while back, I know what you mean it's annoying. It meant my phone tried to sync a ton of stuff I didn't want to my car stereo unit via Bluetooth.
Someone did post up a solution, try a search for Facebook and contacts.
I used MyBackup Root to back up all my contacts on my phone while I was using leedroid. When I've reloaded them into cynogenmod each contact has about 4 copies.
Is there a way to sort my contacts and remove the duplicates? or is there an alternative contact list like that on sense I'm missing having peoples profiles linked with their contact data. The non sense contacts in cm7 rc2 is weak in comparison to the sense verison.
Any ideas are much appreciated.
Thanks
The way I did it I setup my contacts to sync with my Google Account so no matter what rom I have I always have my contacts. Then I just link Facebook and Twitter and I get the contact pictures. It's much easier than using 3rd party apps to do it for you.
Ignore this i've posted my question elsewhere.
Sync all your (multiple) contacts contacts to gmail.
Log into gmail on a pc, click contacts on the left side bar. Then click the drop down box "more actions", and select "find & merge duplicates".
Having your contacts synced to gmail works really well for swapping and changing roms, and also pretty much guarantees you will never loose them.....
Ok so I realize facebook won't sync with ICS so I get Haxsync that was recommended and its ok. However, I don't like this People app that ICS uses compared to the old simple Contacts. When I need to manually merge contacts I used to longpress and choose join contacts and now I cant . But I've seen posts where people say they manually join them, so there must be another way I'm not seeing. Menu options don't bring up merge or join either.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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it is a bit annoying managing contacts in ics...i haven't figured how to automatically join contacts but I have been able to do it manually...for example...let's say your friend's name is "Michael B. Jordan" in facebook and simply "Michael Jordan" in your normal contacts...you have to change the name to "Michael B. Jordan" in contacts facebook and press "space" after the name change..you should see the "facebook name" be suggested right under the contact being edit..click it and it should say "join"..it is pretty annoying way to join contacts (maybe there is a better way, I don't know)...
it took almost an hour to properly sync my 70 contacts and their pictures with haxsync...sorry for the horrrible grammar and I hope it helped..
Annoying it may be... But open "people" Menu> edit> menu> join. Then either pick a suggested person or scroll down to find the right person.
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Speedin07si said:
Annoying it may be... But open "people" Menu> edit> menu> join. Then either pick a suggested person or scroll down to find the right person.
Sent from my CM9 Epic 4G.
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Just made an already tedious process even longer. Damn girls and their stupid fb names. That's the only crappy part of wiping during ROM changes for me. Apps, data, ringtones, wallpapers, etc are all easy but damn having to manually rejoin contacts. Now even worse that's it's not native in ICS.
I'm at the point now where I think I'm just going to manually assign pictures to my contacts. Maybe download them from facebook assign them thru my contacts in google. This way the pix will stick from now on. Anytime I flash a rom, I won't need to go thru this tedious process any longer. I've given up lol.
big_bake said:
Just made an already tedious process even longer. Damn girls and their stupid fb names. That's the only crappy part of wiping during ROM changes for me. Apps, data, ringtones, wallpapers, etc are all easy but damn having to manually rejoin contacts. Now even worse that's it's not native in ICS.
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If you export your joined contacts to your sd card don't they come back joined when you import them?
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Annoying it may be... But open "people" Menu> edit> menu> join. Then either pick a suggested person or scroll down to find the right person.
Sent from my CM9 Epic 4G.
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This works, I knew it was there somewhere, thanks! For anyone else reading this. You have to click on the contact first, then menu, then edit, then the menu button again, then join. Ugh! lol
kennyglass123 said:
If you export your joined contacts to your sd card don't they come back joined when you import them?
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You know I think this would make sense, but I just tried an import and the only option is to import a single vCard file from bluetooth or email.
This used to work out nicely in the 2.x.x days. You sync your google contacts and then facebook contacts. Join a few that the names don't match (ie John Doe and John D). Now with ICS, it won't even try to join John Doe with John D. Doe or Johnathan Doe, even though they are the same person.
The other thing is that haxsync only does photos. I have friends that I don't have saved in my google contacts because their info is on their facebook. Guess I could go through them and manually save a duplicate contact and number to my google contacts, but that's something I didn't have to do in the past. Taking steps backward is not what integration is about.
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You know I think this would make sense, but I just tried an import and the only option is to import a single vCard file from bluetooth or email.
This used to work out nicely in the 2.x.x days. You sync your google contacts and then facebook contacts. Join a few that the names don't match (ie John Doe and John D). Now with ICS, it won't even try to join John Doe with John D. Doe or Johnathan Doe, even though they are the same person.
The other thing is that haxsync only does photos. I have friends that I don't have saved in my google contacts because their info is on their facebook. Guess I could go through them and manually save a duplicate contact and number to my google contacts, but that's something I didn't have to do in the past. Taking steps backward is not what integration is about.
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Then switch to Friendscaster or Friendscaster Pro.
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Anyone know of a similar program that will work for syncing twitter?
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Speedin07si said:
Then switch to Friendscaster or Friendscaster Pro.
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Well I got friendcaster then used it to sync and it copied over with crappy low res pictures, so that pissed me off. The haxsync ones looked decent at least. I'll be fine for now until there is stock integration built into to CM9. I know the OTA ICS guys have figured it out.
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The other thing is that haxsync only does photos. I have friends that I don't have saved in my google contacts because their info is on their facebook. Guess I could go through them and manually save a duplicate contact and number to my google contacts, but that's something I didn't have to do in the past. Taking steps backward is not what integration is about.
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Haxsync does have an option "Additional friends to sync" under "Sync Preferences" - the help text says "These friends will be synced even if they don't match any contacts on your phone". Does this do what you want?
I think he means their contact info from facebook. The main app syncs not only a contacts photo, but any contact info they have on their profile.
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For those who have multiple accounts and want to join them in a few easy steps:
Log into you Gmail account and go under Contacts.
Right above your contacts list, right in the middle, there is a button you click and have some settings come down. One of them is a "join multiple contacts". Hit it and it will automatically join all of them together. A lot easier if u have LOTS of multiple contacts and dnt want to merge them manually
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I would love to have it sync the phone numbers . Like the FB app does.
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Well I got friendcaster then used it to sync and it copied over with crappy low res pictures, so that pissed me off. The haxsync ones looked decent at least. I'll be fine for now until there is stock integration built into to CM9. I know the OTA ICS guys have figured it out.
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haxsync is not showing my entire friend list from facebook
what is to be done??
In the options their is a setting which by default only syncs people already in your contacts. You can change it sync all your friends from facebook.
Also to some of the people earlier in this thread, the latest version of Haxsync lets you write HTC tags to the notes section of your contacts so at least you won't have to do it all again manually when you change roms
Last some days I made an experiments with different ICS ROMs on my Desire.
I tried Sandvold's ROM v0.13 and latest COS-Bravo.
And I found a problem with contacts. ICS on Desire do not let me save a contact as a local phone contact. Remember, on 2.2 there was an option: store to phone, or store into gmail, also it was a possibility to link contacts.
Now the only way - to save save contact as gmail contact.
Does anybody able to save local contacts?
Not sure about local contacts option, but the linking contacts option is a feature in HTC Sense so unless you use that then it will probably not give you the option you are used to. Some ROM's do have alternative features which do the same thing though.
On BCM the same. Only able to store contacts as Google contacts. But hey, who wants local contacts anyway nowadays?
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...linking contacts option is a feature in HTC Sense...
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on COS-Bravo it is a possibility of linking. But what the reason for linking gmail with gmail?
Mad Marty said:
On BCM the same. Only able to store contacts as Google contacts. But hey, who wants local contacts anyway nowadays?
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Pity...
I hate g-contacts because it spoils photos.
And the main idea - I don't want all my contacts in Gmail (what for?) and all gmail contacts in Phone (lot's of trash, useless to search).
So I think this function is nessesary
here's my fix http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1808037
how to delete multiple/all contacts?
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you can go in gmail from pc and edit contacts list from there, it will be faster
SpadaBoss said:
you can go in gmail from pc and edit contacts list from there, it will be faster
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thank you ... :good:
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thank you ... :good:
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oh yes, please edit from google contacts because i've had a hell of a time with contacts back then when i try to delete contacts in my phone, and when i sync, google actually remove some of the contacts i wanted to keep because its not in my google account.
what worked for me, and i find it the fastest, is to use an app to merge/remove most of my contacts, login to my google account and delete everyone there, then turn sync on for my phone. Google contacts will now be exactly the same as your phone's ! Though from my experience, no app out there can properly merge contacts for you. Take the time to check every contact yourself. If you are going down the path of android, you will only need to do this once and your contact should be pretty much synced for the rest of your life xD
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oh yes, please edit from google contacts because i've had a hell of a time with contacts back then when i try to delete contacts in my phone, and when i sync, google actually remove some of the contacts i wanted to keep because its not in my google account.
what worked for me, and i find it the fastest, is to use an app to merge/remove most of my contacts, login to my google account and delete everyone there, then turn sync on for my phone. Google contacts will now be exactly the same as your phone's ! Though from my experience, no app out there can properly merge contacts for you. Take the time to check every contact yourself. If you are going down the path of android, you will only need to do this once and your contact should be pretty much synced for the rest of your life xD
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After deleting google contacts, Don't forget to configure the Sync App that you use to sync from PC to Android, if not you will delete all contacts in your PC.